Nice work, Steve, However, I learned a long time ago, I never have enough clamps. (and, I have quite a lot of clamps.) A wise man suggested I use the same glue as you are using, but just shoot 2

Over the years I came to realize that screw or nails or any of that wasn't necessary if you use the right glue. For these lams, white glue doesn't work but furniture grade aliphatic resin glues (both

Very interesting.  It occurs to me that Denver looked a lot different in the 1920s and 1930s than it does today. Thanks for the info, gentlemen. Bill Lugg

New spline work today after an op session. $ of us ran trains on the first have of the RR. Got the main laid out with spline and the single loop all glued up in the room addition. Next week laying

The D&RGW's Burnham shops in Denver were quite capable of designing and building the replacement valve gear pieces. In fact much of the K-27's Walschaert Valve Gear pieces closely imitate those on

Bill The D&RG never had any narrow gauge Mallets. BLW did build a 3' gauge OF compound 2-6-6-2 for the Manati Sugar Co, of Cuba. This was e a very near duplicate of a pair of IF meter gauge Mallets

The D&RGW had their own foundry at Burnham Shops in Denver, although for larger pieces, such as cylinder saddles, they frequently used another larger, local foundry, whose name escapes my right now.

John, thanks for the very interesting discussion of the K27 valve replacement program.  So, if I understand you correctly, the OF 2-6-6-2 idea never materialized, right? In regard to replacing slide

John, Clearly O’Berry had access to very good informations. Too bad there is not more of it in the book, or an open access to it... Also, reading this again, those broken valve bridges might be the

Bill I am not a D&RG guy either. The Loree evaluation of the D&RG was commissioned in 1917. Mr Hess did the motive power aspects, Those regarding the narrow gauge power were generally ignored. Hess

Not so long ago ... 1976 apparently. But it dates back to the 1890's. Mike Conder

When did this operation shut down? Some of the structure looks fairly new. Mike Van Hove

... with great views of the interior framing of the top of the Commodore Mine's orehouse on top of the famous bins in Creede. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ksltEh3_s Pardon the multiple postings

Thanks John, great info! Answers plus more. Mike Conder

I'm not a D&RG guy so bear with me... You mention the recommendation by Mr' Hess to replace scrapped locomotives with OF 2-6-6-2s.  Was this recommendation followed?  I don't believe I've ever seen

Mike Recapitulating: The D&RG class 125s, later D&RGW K-27s, were built in 1903 with saturated steam boilers and Vauclain compound cylinders worked by inside Stevenson valve gear and inside piston

The basic framing is in and I've started the road bed. I use splines by sandwiching short blocks between 1/8 th by 1 inch laths. I cut the laths from 1/8th inch doorskin sheets. The blocks are 1

Graeme: When first issued, the kits differed only in the body bolster that was included. One contained an HO standard gauge bolster, and the other an HOn3. Later, they included both in the same kit

A quick look through the two kits and I believe it is only in the trucks. SG wheel sets for all axles. Different tender truck bolsters and the rotary has different side frames (missing the

Gee that was easy, just needed to look a bit closer at the pics. #30 is HOn3 #31 is HO Graeme